Unfair Treatment Regarding Shots

October 24, 2004|Lois Avrick Delray Beach

Re the article, "U.S. to bolster stocks of vaccine": While the elderly, maimed and disabled stand in long lines in the blistering heat for a flu shot, our members and employees of Congress, even if they are young or healthy, can call their Capitol physician for flu shots at no cost.

Does that send the electorate a message of the partisanship in our country? And does that make all us elderly and ailing finally understand, that in reality, we come last, not first.

This lack of true concern and respect for the older and frail generation is different than many cultures where their elders are respected for the knowledge and wisdom they have accumulated in their long lives.

Isn't it interesting that these same politicians and people in our society forget that they too will get old, sick and eventually will die?